We, concerned burial societies and community organisations of the Vaal area, invite everyone in the region to support our struggle against high fees and privatisation of cemeteries. Our people are already living in poverty and struggling to access basic services and a better life because of privatisation. Now they want to charge us high fees and profit from the death of our loved ones! We working class people of the Vaal can not afford the high fees they are charging for graves – fees that are so high and on top of it we still have to pay for tombstones, caskets and reopening if we want to bury another person on the site! Asinamali! Grave fees must fall! We demand free graves!

Yesterday it was our electricity and water. Today it is our cemeteries and burial rights. Tomorrow it could be the air we breathe. We are saying no to privatisation! Help us build a movement to defend our human and constitutional rights and to roll back the privatisation and commercialisation of basic services.

Join us to commemorate the victims of the Vaal Uprising and to continue and build the struggle against the privatisation and commodification of basic services and human rights and for true liberation.